Well, not a bad opener for a TV series. Of course, might I add, it helps a great deal if you actually see the movie before seeing the episode. It's kind of like watching a sequel before you see the prequel. You're sitting there saying "Okay ... who the heck is he? What is the significance of that? Why is everyone laughing?!" and before you know it, not only have you considerably annoyed everyone around you, but you feel like hitting someone.
Still, even though it set up some of the great plotlines that we have today, there were a couple things that, after watching it again, I've found very disagreeable.
1. Captain Carter's G.I. Jane attitude. I've never liked it. I realise, no one really has, but I feel the need to comment on it anyway. When I saw that part with her and Major Kawalski that went
Carter: You don't have to worry, Major, I played with dolls as a kid.
Kawalski: Oh. G.I. Joe?
Carter: Major Matt McKinley
and others to that effect, I didn't go 'Oh gee, there's a strong, military woman who's not afraid to stand up for herself. She will be a good role model for children', I went 'Oh God, not another one'. Lately, this seems to be the kind of woman that other series are showing. The strong, won't-take-no-crap-from-no-one, attitude of the main heroine, who, by some strange twist of fate, ends up being the victim anyway. What's the point?
2. The nudity. I've had mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, being against it makes me look like some anal freak (not a freak obsessed with anuses...you know what I mean), but I think that, in this situation, we really didn't need it. Since this is, of a sort, a...
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